Europe & Central Asia

Innovation and unity: How home-based workers are adapting to the COVID-19 world

Home-based workers are among the world’s most invisible and overlooked workers, and they are all too familiar with insecure earnings and...

The European Union’s Commodification of Bulgarian Homeworkers: Regulating Informal Labour in Global Production Networks

This paper interrogates the potential of contemporary international law instruments to realize decent work for homeworkers. It grounds the...

Challenges and Experiences in Organizing Home-Based Workers in Bulgaria

The Home-Based Workers’ Association in Bulgaria is an extraordinary example of how informal women workers have managed to build a strong...

Lesser Citizens: Indian Migrant Domestic Workers in the UK

Employment in the Informal Economy in the Republic of Moldova

ILO Bureau of Statistics in collaboration with the Department for Statistics and Sociology of the Republic of Moldova

Measuring Non-standard and Informal Employment in the Republic of Macedonia

Paper for the WIEGO meeting on “Measuring Informal Employment in Developed Countries” 31 October-1 November 2008, Harvard University

Informal Workers and Collective Bargaining: Five Case Studies

This brief summarizes the findings of a set of case studies of collective bargaining by informal workers in five different countries. Included...

The New Bonded Labour?

The impact of proposed changes to the UK immigration system on migrant domestic workers

Federation of Trade Unions of Macedonia CCM

The Informal Sector and Informal Employment in Armenia

This report contains the findings of the mixed-survey approach to measuring informal sector.